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/ 16 January 2002
Gaborone | Wednesday BOTSWANA’S President Festus Mogae has admitted there was not much the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and his country could do should Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe renege on a promise to allow free elections. ”He (Mugabe) is an honourable man and we took his word for it. There is not much we […]
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/ 16 January 2002
Johannesburg | Wednesday SOUTH Africans should show more confidence in their own country instead of taking their money offshore, SA Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni said on Tuesday night. Interviewed on Metro FM radio, he said banks were encouraging South Africans to take their money offshore. This meant a capital flight, which created a mood […]
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/ 15 January 2002
Whether staging performances of the rumba La Cucaracha or singing Yiddish songs in the cellar of a synagogue, Germany’s Jews went to desperate lengths to preserve some cultural identity under the Nazis, writes Pierre Feuilly.
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/ 15 January 2002
London | Tuesday BRITISH Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has condemned President Robert Mugabe’s clampdown on Zimbabwe’s independent media as “resonant of dictatorship”, the Independent daily reported on Tuesday. Meanwhile Britain and the United States have begun a joint effort to identify millions of dollars thought to be stashed away in foreign bank accounts by Mugabe […]
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/ 15 January 2002
A CAIRO court on Monday upheld an interior ministry ban on an Egyptian Copt from making a pilgrimage to Christian holy sites in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, court officials said. Lawyer Adel Mikhail visited Israel’s embassy in the Egyptian capital in 2000 to apply for a visa, but he was stopped by Egyptian guards who told […]
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/ 15 January 2002
AN international medical team in Gabon dealing with an outbreak of the Ebola virus that has killed 25 people returned on Sunday to a village at the centre of the epidemic, after being forced out by the local population, the Red Cross said. “Efforts by the authorities, and especially by volunteers of the Gabonese Red […]
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/ 15 January 2002
A SOUTH African soccer fan was struck dead by a bolt of lightning a match outside Johannesburg on Saturday, a radio report said here. The fan, who was not identified, was killed at a South African league match between the Classic and Manning Ranger clubs at Mehlareng stadium in Thembisa, some 20 kilometres northeast of […]
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/ 15 January 2002
Cape Town | Tuesday A SECURITY guard accused of killing former South African first lady Marike de Klerk told a Cape Town court on Tuesday that she had been murdered by her dance instructor. Luyanda Mboniswa said dance teacher John Teubes had persuaded him to help burgle her beach-front apartment and when De Klerk surprised […]